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Mugs definitely fit into the morale category. We use A&J Mugs www.ajmugs.com, relatively cheap setup and quick turnaround. Also, more raving reviews for Dave....we ordered some nametags and got them within a week. Solid product and great dude to work with. Thanks Dave!

Anyone know a better place to get visor covers made other than Snacko Stuff? Their customer service is terrible and they take 6-9 weeks to get anything shipped. Oh and when you get your visor covers, they won't fit your visor and will look like shit. Heads up. I'm almost positive they're a monopoly so they DGAF about how their products turn out lately. Dave - any chance you'll get into the visor cover making business? I'm sure other snackos would be more than happy to buy visor covers from someone other than Felicia over at Snacko Stuff.

Some background on the situation before I go on a rant. Four of my B-Course bros and I got stationed at Elmo and 3 of us decided to buy trailers so we could make money off the DITY and bring the trailer up to AK where trailers and campers are 2x the price. We figured we'd take the AMHS ferry to take a break from driving and to avoid driving through remote and wintry Canada. We all made it up to AK now and finally got to be graced by finance's presence only to be told that they will only reimburse up to 21 feet in cost for the ferry car storage. I had 34 feet, including my truck and trailer. So, doing the math I lose out on ~$1000 because someone decided that they'll only reimburse up to 21 feet and for some reason I can't find that reg anywhere in the JTR. Oh and the finance dude said "This is the first time I've ever seen someone drive a trailer onto a ferry to travel up here". I'm trying to figure out the logic behind it and how you could actually accomplish a DITY move during winter where it's nearly impossible to drive the entire distance through BC/Yukon. Okay now that my rant is over, does anyone have any experience in this subject matter that can help us argue our situation? After all, we were told by both the Tyndall TMO and Finance that the Ferry was fully reimbursable, even with a trailer. Shack on me for believing anything that TMO or Finance says.

Him him. Shills was the man. Such a good dude, would do anything for you. Prayers for his wife and family

XL 16-04 T-38: F-22 F-15E x 2 F-16 T-38 FAIP B-52

VN 16-04 Active T-38: F-16 x 2 (Tucson, Luke) F-15C T-6 FAIP T-1: MQ-9 x 2 U-28 x 2 Hurlburt Field KC-135 x 2 McConnell C-17 x 2 McChord MC-130J Cannon RC-135 Offutt T-1 FAIP This is purely from memory, there may have been another MC-130 or J model.

What are the actual odds of this happening? Isn't the cost of opening the line back up some crazy amount of money?

With this....Raptors target, F-15E launches and leaves (via Data link) Raptors clean up the ensuing shit show. Is that how it works? Disclaimer: I'm partly sarcastic and partly interested if that's actually possible.

VN 16-02 Track Select This is the only 16-02 class in SUPT (ENJJPT doesn't count) Columbus and Laughlin got rolled to 16-03 because of the T-6 being grounded for a week. T-38 x 6 (all active) T-1 x 13 (6 Guard) UH-1 x 2

Anyone know the deal with Laughlin? Are they trying to be like Sheppard?

Awesome app, really useful for our formal brief at UPT and getting all the weather info before a sortie. The only thing that I could see fixed/improved is a quicker update of the METAR, it's usually pretty timely but sometimes it's 2 observations behind the current. May be a tough fix, but this app is awesome otherwise...thanks for putting it out there!

VN 15-02 Active 38s: F-22 F-15E CV-22 (Hurlburt) T-6 FAIP T-1s: About 8x C-17s 2x KC-135 (McConnel, Macdill) 2x C-130J (Ramstein, Dyess) 1x HC-130 (Moody) 1x E-3 (Tinker) Should be mostly right and everyone seemed pumped. The F-22 guy is a Captain, former E model backseater.

VN 15-06 Track Select 3 x T-38 13 x T-1 1 x UH-1

VN 14-13 Only remember the -38 side F-15E 2x F-16 RC-135 F-2 Japan

http://blogs.militarytimes.com/flightlines/2014/02/21/welsh-throws-down-gauntlet-air-force-wide-mustache-march/ Friday shirts, morale patches, and now MUSTACHES!

The Academy is the largest producer of pilots and officers for the Air Force. About 96% of us here don't give two shits about how good the academics are, we just care if we get a pilot slot and a good education. Maybe that's our problem.

Somone is bitter.

I'm just gonna ignore the part where you judged who I am as a person and just agree with you on every level about being a wingman. Totally agree that we should help our bros out on the lowest level to keep issues from being bigger than they need to be. But this whole informant thing is way different than that and I think you believed too many things Eric said in the article. Nobody ran to OSI, it wasn't a spy movie, he didn't tail anyone, he wasn't directed to do shit by OSI, it was suggested. He didn't know his legal rights as an informant and that's how he got in too deep. The OSI has no clue about the cadet rules and BS, Eric did. That's how he got kicked out. We don't have dudes running around here trying to snitch on each other for honor things and keeping their chain of command in the dark about most of it.If we did I would've been outta here the first month and on my way back to Florida to be a Nole. The whole article is the Eric saw it, and his perspective is jacked up. Keep in mind, he was a month away from graduation with ~450 demerits when he got the boot (200 is disenrollment). Eric did dumb shit and tried to blame it on being an OSI informant. Definitely not the case.

I was squadmates with him and know a few people that were involved in the whole thing.

Not real sure how this turned into an Academy bashing sesh, but let's get one thing straight. The stuff this dude Eric Thomas said in the article, is about 3/4 straight bullshit. I can honestly say there were some pretty shitty people in the class of 2013, which he was a part of. They were the most problematic class the Academy has seen in years, I'm not totally sure of the the stats but they had numerous people get kicked out for spice, sexual assault, and even drugs. Eric was already a part of this crowd. He never "tailed" anyone, never infiltrated cliques within the academy, and never changed his personality to "fit in", he was already in that group. Same with Vianca Torres, and the other anonymous "informant." Btw, that other " anonymous informant" graduated just fine, that person was a good person and did their shit and actually cared. They were not a snitch. Do I think that its okay to have people within the cadet wing spying on other cadets just to rat them out, hell no. But I sure as hell don't want to go to school with a bunch of kids who are smoking weed, spice, and doing other things that don't reflect positively upon the Air Force or the Academy. He's a wounded animal digging at whatever he can get to so his name is cleared and that he may have a chance to be commissioned. From experience and what I have heard from others that I trust, Eric can be the type of guy to exaggerate and pathologically lie. He told his "side" of the story and that's about it. He seems like a hero and a victim in the article, but I can assure you that's not the case. Edit: When I say Eric was part of this "crowd", I'm not saying it was loaded with bad people. I'm just saying that was the party crowd and they are people that were associated with some of the bad stuff going on.

The kid was in my squadron, I would guess there is much more to the story than what he presents in this article. You only get recruited to "inform" on people if you got in trouble in the first place. The "you help us, we'll help you" type of thing. As for the demerits he racked up, he missed pretty much everything he would have to go to, even morning formation and breakfast....I doubt OSI would need to talk to him at 0630 and have him miss every formation possible. Also, the kid was the "runaway basic" he got nearly 200 demerits for that one event where he dressed up as a basic when he was sophomore and jumped a fence and ran away. The base sent out searches and I think they even locked down the base and basic training stopped ops. It was big deal and he got in a ton of trouble for it. I didn't know him all really well, but I would be careful in believing the things he is saying to the media. It took him months to get kicked out, longer than usual because he was pulling out every stop to get a chance to stay. I understand he would want to stay and if the story is true, I'd be pissed as well. But when you don't go to anything, don't do your job, and fail the PFT your firstie year, I'd say it wasn't his involvement with OSI that caused him to get kicked out. On another note, the informant "program" is an actual thing. If you're involved in a sketchy situation and can get more info, you help to inform OSI about what's going on and who's involved...pretty standard for law enforcement and investigation in general.I am very skeptical about the informant program as it is portrayed in the article, but cadets are used as informants if there's issues going on that they can help OSI with. Edit: clarified "informants" as used at the Academy

It did for the dude who told me "the rich get richer." He was one of the first guys to drop the raptor out of UPT, I feel like that carries a little bit of weight.

A buddy of mine always said "The rich get richer." Not to poo-poo you dudes who didn't have their PPL before going to UPT, but while they're getting ground ops down you have it nailed, when they're flying you're working on instruments, and while they're trying to grasp instruments you're perfecting them. Since you have the basics down of flying w/ 100 hours, stay ahead and reap the benefits.

E-mail from cadet personnel at the zoo: Subject: Reduced Rated Quota for 2014 There's more to this e-mail but not too much as far as info that matters to anyone on this forum. I'm not complaining whatsoever about getting less pilot slots, just wondering if anyone has a clue if more are just being allocated to ROTC now. I would agree with that being case because everyone and their mom got a slot last year, even dudes who didn't want it at first and figured "Hey, they have more pilot slots? I'm gonna switch from contracting to pilot because it sounds like more fun." And i'll tell you from my perspective....the quality of people getting slots was kinda low. Anyone have some insight on this?

Last I heard the dude got T-1's, the letter circulated around the academy pretty good and surely fended off any future offenders of "tell us about yourself" MFRs....